diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Large-Disk-HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Large-Disk-HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.sgml
index 5ea1a5c9..7645d2de 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Large-Disk-HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Large-Disk-HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ for the same disk. One often sees a translated geometry like */255/63
 used by one and an untranslated geometry like */16/63 used by another OS.
 (People tell me Windows NT uses */64/32 while Windows 2K uses */255/63.)
 Thus, it may be impossible to align partitions to cylinder boundaries
-according to each of the the various ideas about the size of a cylinder
+according to each of the various ideas about the size of a cylinder
 that one's systems have. Also different Linux kernels may assign
 different geometries to the same disk.
 Also, enabling or disabling the BIOS of a SCSI card may change the
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ What is the definition of alignment?
 MSDOS 6.22 FDISK will do the following:
 1. If the first sector of the cylinder is a partition
 table sector, then the rest of the track is unused,
-and the partition starts with the the next track.
+and the partition starts with the next track.
 This applies to sector 0 (the MBR) and the partition table sectors
 preceding logical partitions.
 2. Otherwise, the partition starts at the first sector of the